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‘I once told my children that I’m already dead, so no one can kill me’ – Pastor Adeboye

‘I once told my children that I’m already dead, so no one can kill me’ – Pastor Adeboye

General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has advised Christians to stay connected to God to overcome life’s challenges and have dominion over all forces of darkness and sickness.

Pastor Adeboye gave the admonition while delivering his sermon tagged: ‘A branch of the Life’, on the second day of the ongoing annual Holy Ghost Congress of the church holding at the Redemption Camp, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

He explained that Jesus Christ is the Vine while every true believer is the branch and has God’s nature in him. Adeboye, however, urged participants to remain steadfast in the vine, stressing that God has assured them of doing greater works than He did while on earth.

In his words: “Jesus Christ is the vine while we are the branches. He is the combination of divinity and humanity. As the vine is, so also the branches. If you are a true Christian, you are a combination of humanity and divinity. You are human but you are made to partake in God’s divine nature and He will supply the needed strength, power that you need to do His works. Every branch of the vine can do what the vine can do”.
Pastor Adeboye recalled how he went to toilet 23 times in a day after taking a meal during one of his missionary trips to an unnamed African country years ago, noting that it took God through the prayer of faith for him to be healed.

According to him: “I did not know what I ate but I just saw myself going to toilet. After the 23rd time, I realized that I needed to tackle the matter prayerfully. But who will pray for me? I then laid my hands on myself and prayed. That was how I was healed.” He made reference to the healing while encouraging the congregation to pray for themselves, stressing that every child of God is a branch of the vine with both the human and divine nature.

As long as we are linked to him and connected to him we have the capacity to do all that he said we could do. “I once told my children that nobody can kill me because I am already dead. I have been crucified with Christ nevertheless I live. Because Jesus is living in the believer, his blood flows in the believer. On the outside it may not appear to be so, but in actual fact the blood that is flowing in you is the blood of Jesus”.

A Fulani socio-cultural association, Miyetti Allah Kautal-Hore has called on the Federal and State governments to retrieve lands gazetted as grazing reserves from farmers and hand them over to herdsmen.

The body made the call while insisting that government secure grazing reserves across the country to curb the recurring crisis between farmers and herdsmen across the country.

Speaking during a visit to the Governor of Sokoto State, the National President of the group, Alhaji Bello Badejo said most gazetted grazing reserves have been appropriated to farmers.

Suspected armed thugs allegedly attack two APC chieftains in Ebonyi

Suspected armed thugs have reportedly attacked some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi, inflicting injuries on them.

The thugs reportedly attacked their victims at Okposi in Ohaozara Local Government Area and Abakaliki area of Ebonyi State.

Briefing journalists in Abakaliki on Tuesday, two of the victims, Mrs Clementina Igwe and Ngozichi Okoro, were reported by the News Agency Nigeria, NAN as saying that the attacks were an act of intimidation, and described the action as barbaric.

Igwe, Women Campaign Coordinator for Ezza North for Sen. Soni Ogbuoji, the APC governorship candidate, said that the suspected thugs swooped on her and gave her thorough beating for refusing them from removing the campaign posters of Ogbuoji pasted on her building.

She said: “On Thursday, Dec. 13, a group of persons suspected to be political thugs armed with dangerous weapons were moving around at the G-hostel area of Abakaliki, removing campaign posters of Ogbuoji pasted on walls and buildings around the area.

“They were tearing and removing the posters and mini bill boards placed in strategic places in the area.

“When they came to my private building at No. 17 G-hostel Road, Mile 50 to tear the posters, I came out and resisted them.

“They thugs numbering about 13 descended on me, got me thoroughly beaten and inflicted serious wounds on me which you can see all over my body.

“If not the intervention of good spirited individuals who came and rescued me, I would have been left dead”.

She, therefore, called on the police and other security agencies to apprehend the culprits and prosecute them.

Similarly, Okoro, an APC House of Assembly candidate for Ohaozara East State Constituency, said that she was attacked alongside other party supporters, while they were installing solar panel, a constituency project attracted by Sen. Ogbuoji at Okoposi community.

“On Saturday, Dec. 15, while installing solar panels at Okoposi community in Ohaozara Local Government Area, being constituency project attracted by Ogbuoji, the incumbent senator representing the area, we were stopped from installing the panels.

“Seven solar panels worth over N1.7million were vandalised in the process, while the driver conveying the items was inflicted with heavy injuries and many of us received varying degrees of injuries.

“Two of the suspects have been arrested, we are demanding that all the persons involved in the attack are fished out for prosecution,” Okoro said.
When contacted for comments, Mrs Loveth Odah, the Ebonyi Police Command Public Relations Officer (PPRO) said that the command was yet to be briefed.

“We are yet to be briefed on the incident. We shall make contact with the Divisional Police Headquarters at Kpiri-kpiri and Ohaozara for confirmation of the alleged attacks.

“We will carry out full investigation into the matter and anyone connected with the unlawful attacks will be arrested and prosecuted.

“We want to use this medium to assure all political parties and indeed the general public of our commitment to ensure that adequate security is provided before, during and after the 2019 elections,” Odah said.

Buhari rejects NASS approval of N488.7bn refund to states

President Muhammadu Buhari has rejected the sum of N488.7 billion approved by the National Assembly as refund to state governments for projects executed on behalf of the Federal Government.

Buhari communicated the decision through a letter read by the President of the Senate, Sen. Bukola Saraki, at plenary on Tuesday.

The president said he rejected the National Assembly’s approval because it violated the provisions of the Public Procurement Act 2007.

He noted that whereas the Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved a total of N487.8 billion for the purpose, the National Assembly jerked up the figure to N488.7 billion.

He said the amount approved by the lawmakers was N890 million higher than that approved by FEC.

Buhari said a review of the National Assembly’s approval, communicated through a July 27, 2018 letter, also revealed discrepancies in the number of states submitted by FEC and those approved by the lawmakers.

The president added that the amount approved by the lawmakers for each of the 21 states was higher than that approved by FEC for each of them, except for Adamawa, Jigawa, Kano and Niger.

He urged the Senate to note that the Public Procurement Act 2007 empowers the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) to approve vendors for contract sums.

According to him, the amounts presented to the National Assembly for approval were duly certified for reimbursement by the BPP before they were approved by FEC.

“This was after the projects had been inspected through a programme under the chairmanship of the Minister of Power, Works and Housing.

“Since the BPP is charged with the responsibility of approving contract sums, and there is need for compliance with the Public Procurement Act 2007, I wish to request that you forward to us details relating to the amounts approved by the National Assembly for the 17 states in excess of what was certified by BPP, for necessary verification and approval.

“Furthermore, I wish to request for a review of the reimbursement earlier submitted in favour of Bauchi, Delta, Kogi and Taraba states,” the president said.